Aya Girl
How popular is Aya?
#644 girl name in 2025
449 baby girls were named Aya in the US in 2025, making it the 644th most popular girl name.
Aya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #644 for girls (▼ 14 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 449 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+45% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #892 in 2015, #789 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (469 girls) |
| Highest rank | #630 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1972 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Aya family of names ranked #389 for girls in 2025 (#404 the year before), with 800 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aya | 449 | 56% |
| Ayah | 309 | 39% |
| Aayah | 6 | 1% |
| Aia | 8 | 1% |
| Aiah | 28 | 4% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Aya is most popular
Babies named Aya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 1.0 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- District of Columbia: 0.8 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Michigan: 0.8 per 1,000 (151 girls)
- Virginia: 0.6 per 1,000 (106 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.6 per 1,000 (67 girls)
Aya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 65 | #4,424 |
| 1980s | 183 | #3,328 |
| 1990s | 587 | #1,730 |
| 2000s | 1,779 | #1,160 |
| 2010s | 2,956 | #738 |
| 2020s | 2,417 | #630 |
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Questions
- Is Aya a boy or girl name?
- Aya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Aya were girls.
- How popular is the name Aya?
- 449 baby girls were named Aya in the US in 2025, making it the 644th most popular girl name.
- When was Aya most popular?
- Aya peaked in 2024, when 469 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #630 in 2024.
- How many people are named Aya?
- 7,987 babies have been named Aya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,931 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Aya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aya was most common in Hawaii, at 1.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.